Service to medicine and fertility is honoured
Associate Professor Graeme Hughes of Pearl Beach has been appointed a member of the Order of Australia for significant service to medicine in the field of fertility.
He has been clinical director of IVF Australia (Virtus Health) since 2002 and while he is now semi-retired, he says he still misses delivering babies.
The Graeme Hughes Birthing Room at the Royal Hospital for Women Randwick was named in his honour.
Born in in Sydney, he studied medicine at the University of NSW and decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology.
He worked for six years in Scotland before returning to Australia for a lectureship back at UNSW and the position of visiting medical officer at the Royal Hospital for Women and the Prince of Wales Private Hospital.
He ran the Ovulation Induction Clinic and then pioneered an IVF clinic with colleagues which became IVF Australia.
"It has been such a joy to me," he said.
"There's no other job in the world like it."
Dr Hughes wrote a book in 2023 "The Baby Maker: Memoirs of a Gynaecologist and IVF Specialist" and has authored more than 15 articles.
SOURCE:
Media release, 11 June 2025
Lynne Lillico, Pearl Beach Progress Association